Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds, sentence 14

Popcorn is a kind of maize with a hard shell and a little water inside; heat turns the water to steam, and the hard shell holds the steam in until it bursts the kernel.

Who acts: Popcorn, heat, hard shell · What happens: be, turn, hold, burst · To what, where: kind, water, steam, kernel

This is a sentence of the lesson «Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Popcorn, heat, hard shell), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

assert

voice

narrator

polarity

none

teacher

kept the draft

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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